Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Children's Books by Celebrities

One of the presentations I often do at conferences is one where the attendees analyze and form opinions about books written by celebrities. I have all the copies there to preview as well. Here is a list of just some of the more popular ones. Which one's do you like? How do you feel about "famous people" not necessarily authors/writers being able to publish books for children?

Children's Books by Celebrities

Jimmy Buffet, The Jolly Mon

Jimmy & Amy Carter, The Little Baby Snoogle-Fleejer

Prince of Wales Charles , The Old Man of Lochnagar

Patricia Cornwell, Life's Little Fable

Bill Cosby, series: Little Bill Books for Beginning Readers

Katie Couric, The Brand New Kid

Mario Cuomo, The Blue Spruce

Jamie Lee Curtis, Where Do Balloons Go?, Tell Me Again About the Night I was Born, Today I Feel Silly, When I Was Little : A Four-Year-Old's Memoir of Her Youth

Dom DeLuise, Golidlocks, The Nightingale, Charlie the Caterpillar, King

Bob's New Clothes, Hansel and Gretel

Julie Andrews Edwards, Mandy , The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles , Little Bo: The Story of Bonnie Boadicea

John Lithgow, The Remarkable Farkle McBride, Marsupial Sue (due out in October)

Bette Midler, The Saga of Baby Divine

Deborah Norville, I Don't Want to Sleep Tonight, I Can Fly (due out in March)

Dolly Parton, Coat of Many Colors

Dini Petty, The Queen, the Bear, and the Bumblebee

Della Reese, God Inside of Me

Faith Ringgold, Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky, Tar Beach, The Invisible Princess, If a Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks, My Dream of Martin Luther King, Dinner at Aunt Connie's House